SEMO | Canadianvirtual.ca Search Engine Marketing & Optimization Blog

If you’ve taken a look at my meta keywords tag on the front page of my site lately, you’ve probably noticed an odd keyword phrase in there.

It is now pretty much common knowledge amongst Search Marketers and Developers that JavaScript is ignored by Search Engine Bots, effectively keeping any code or content within JavaScript tags out of the Search Engine Indexes. The reason behind this is that bots are, and have been, built to be simple creatures by nature, unable to crawl more advanced code, and other rich content such as images and flash. Perhaps this was partly done to save on processing and memory usage, it can definitely be imagined that indexing the entire Internet raises some tough logistical questions that need to be worked out…